Baby boomers and popular culture : an inquiry into America's most powerful generation / Brian Cogan and Thom Gencarelli, editors
- Published:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2015]
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 423 pages ; 25 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Cogan, Brian, 1967- and Gencarelli, Thom
- Contents:
- From Camelot to Watergate : ten years that changed the politics of boomer culture / William M. Knoblauch -- The whole world is watching : the SDS and student movement of the 1960s / Ed Tywoniak -- Breaking down doors : the Stonewall riots and LGBT rights / Anastacia Kurylo -- Wearing members only jackets : baby boomers and the shift from sharing in to buying into community / Todd Kelshaw -- Boomers in the global village / Michael Grabowski -- Let the games begin : baby boomers, capitalist ideology, and the containment of gender in sports television / Cheryl A. Casey -- "And now bringing you the good life, a word from our sponsors" : the changing face of television advertising from the sixties to the present day / Rebecca Kern -- Moving with the pictures : film viewing across the boomer era / Sheila J. Nayar -- Chilling to The big chill : representations of boomers in movies / Robert Hensley-King -- The new horror movie / Todd K. Platts -- Rock music on film : a selective chronology / Sarah Boslaugh -- "It's only rock-'n'-roll" : the rise of the contemporary popular music industry as a defining factor in the creation of boomer culture / Thom Gencarelli -- "In my life" : the transformative power of music and media during the rebellions of the 1960s / Robert Albrecht -- "Love is all you need" : why there will never be another Beatles / Phil Rose -- Bob Dylan and spectacle culture : yesterday and today / Salvatore J. Fallica -- "Come see about me" : why the baby boomers liked Stax but loved Motown / Gary Kenton -- Reading the boomers' reading : what did they read? Who did they read? Who wrote about them? / David Linton -- Equipment for living : the popularity and use of second-wave feminist literature among baby boomers / Kim Trager Bohley -- "After Life, the magazine, the splintering of the categories: boomers as a target audience" (including "Mau-mau-ing the press: the rise of 'new' journalism, " "Rolling Stone: the magazine that marked a generation, " and "Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and the 'new journalism' as literature") / Brian Cogan -- Soul on ice : the rise of minority literature / Christopher Allen Varlack -- The baby boom, the bomb, and outer space : growing up in a science fiction world / Lance Strate -- Marshall McLuhan and the making of a countercultural generation / James C. Morrison.
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- ISBN:
- 9780313398865 (alk. paper)
0313398860 (alk. paper)
9780313398872 (ebook)
0313398879 (ebook) - Note:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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